Generic Best / Worst Practices
Best Practices
- Formal Risk Management
- User Manual as Specification
- Inspections, Reviews, Walkthru’s
- Metrics-based Scheduling & Tracking
- Binary Quality Gates at Inch Pebble Level
- Programme-wide Visibility of Plan vs. Progress
- Defect Tracking vs. Targets
- Separate Spec of H/W & S/W Functionality
- People-aware Mgmt Accountability
Worst Practices
- New Technology to justify Schedule Compression
- Implementation Techniques Specified in RFP
- Silver Bullet Approaches
- Big Schedule Recovery without Scope Reduction
- Delegation of Critical Path Tasks outside Project Control
- Big Improvements on Observed Performance
- All Complexity in S/W
- Critical Tasks w-out Expertise
- Formal Reviews as only True Measure